>The Awl is where all the good Gawker writers went, and their look at tween reading is worth your time.
>A book that begs for flashlight reading
March 30, 2010 By 2 Comments
>Serendipitous with my enjoyment of M. T. Anderson’s refereeing of Charles and Emma v. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, I had the best time last week reading the equally Darwinian-themed The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1912. Somehow I had always missed this novel (and its subsequent movie spinoffs), but my ten-year-old [...]
>Infer this.
December 9, 2009 By 10 Comments
>Lions are . . .
November 9, 2009 By 4 Comments
>Paging the Ambassador . . .
October 28, 2009 By 8 Comments
>The most interesting statistic of this teen reading survey concerns who responded to it: “while we purposely marketed the survey to attract male readers, females are the vast majority (96%) of responders.” It would be really good to know if book reading breaks down in similarly dramatic proportions. We know that girls and women read [...]
>Can we grow the number of readers?
September 7, 2009 By 22 Comments
>Zetta Elliott makes some great points re people of color in books and as authors. Without in any way diminishing the very real problem of the white worldview of children’s book publishing, I am struck by how often and widely charges of non-representation (“why aren’t there more _____ in children’s books?” “where are the books [...]
>Man Without a Face redux
May 29, 2009 By 9 Comments
>Or Batman and Robin, or maybe it’s simply Twilight for little gay guys, but Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain is quite the adolescent epic of doomed, yet eternal, love. Philip, the half-Chinese son of a wealthy colonialist, is sixteen when he meets Endo-san, an older Japanese man who has rented the small island [...]
>Reading Fun with Goofus and Gallant
April 13, 2009 By 7 Comments
>More weeding wisdom
April 7, 2009 By 6 Comments
>From Work with Children in Public Libraries by Effie L. Power (ALA, 1943): “Nationality and race influence mode and type of reading and therefore library selection. Jewish boys and girls are inclined to read serious books on mature subjects, and Italian children who live most naturally out-of-doors under sunny skies read reluctantly but enjoy picture [...]
